Ash-pan for locomotives



J. F. HUSSEY.

ASH PAN FOR LOCOMOTIVES.

(No Model.)

Patented July-20, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

JASPER F. HUSSEY, OF NEIV VIENNA, OHIO.

ASH-PAN FOR LOCOMOTIVES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 346,049, dated July 20, 1886.

Application filed April 10, 1886.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JASPER F. HUSSEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Vienna, in the county of Clinton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ash-Pans for Locomotives; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figu res of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective view of my improved ash-pan. Fig. 2 is a verticallongitudinalseetion of the same. Fig.

3 is a vertical transverse section taken 011 line provided at its bottom with the wide transverse bars 13, having spaces 0 between them, and upon the inner faces of the side wall, D, of the ash-pan and near the lower edge of said side wall, D, and a short distance above the wide transverse bars B, are two longitudinal fixed guide-strips, E and F, beneath which the longitudinal connecting side bars, G H, slide when in place. The side bars, GH, connect a number of transverse bars, I, said transverse bars I being triangular in shape in crosssection, and having end projections, J K, which are also triangular shape in cross section and rest on the longitudinal guard-strips E and F.

The ash-pan is provided with doors L M Serial No. 199,500. (No model.)

one at each end-whicl1 doors open outwardly and upwardly, and the front door is cut away in its lower corners at N N to permit the passage of the sliding side bars, G H. To the projecting ends of the side bars, G H, are hinged two shorter bars, P Q, and the other ends of said shorter bars, P Q, are pivoted to the lower ends of the arms It S, connected to the transverse rock-shaf t or roll-bar T, secured in bearings U in the engine-cab in front of the furnace. This rock-shaft T is provided with a lever, V, at one end by which to operate the connected transverse triangular (in cross-section) bars, to shake the ashes out of the ashpan.

In operation it will be seen that when the hand-leveris vibrated by the fireman the sliding bars,th rough the medium of the rock-shaft and vertical arms R and S, will move the sliding longitudinal side bars back and forth in the ash-pan, thereby discharging the ashes which might lodge upon the transverse prismatic or triangular bars, as well as on the cross-strips, through the opening 0.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

The combination, with the ash-pan having the broad transverse bars with spaces between them, the longitudinal fixed guide-strips, and the hinged doors, one of which is provided with notched lower corners, of the triangular transverse bars having end projections, the shorter bars hinged to the longitudinal sliding side bars, the bars R and S, the rock-shaft or roll-bar secured in bearings and provided with an operatinglever, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signatnrein presence of two witnesses.

JASPER F. HUSSEY.

Vitnesscs:

Gno. E. BARRow, Gno. W. OSBORN. 

